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why do i care what obama feels about either of these
I very rarely care for what most 62 year olds have to say about the capabilities about the theoretical limits of computation.
This isn't much different.
If the 62 year old had studied computer science and had specialized in AI, I would listen closely to them.
But I definitely not care about a politician that has no idea about technology.
Fully agreed, hence the "most" :^)
Unfortunately when it comes to medical experts, many ignore them and listen to their aunt with the healing crystals, or their buddy that skipped most of his high school science classes to go smoke behind the school instead...
I mean — he’s defending human creativity and he’s kind of right. AI can recreate variations of the things it is trained on, but it doesn’t create new paradigms.
People always says AI do create only variations but many successful TV shows are variations. I started watching sitcoms from the 70s and many things were copied/adapted in recent shows.
That just muzak for a visual medium.
99% of everything people create is a variation.
Truly innovative anything is RARE.
There's just stuff and things people haven't thought to combine with stuff yet.
Yeah, also I think there is something about the human connection and communicating personal ideas and feelings that just isn't there with AI generated art. I could see a case for an argument that a lot of music today is recorded by artists who didn't write that music, and that they are expressing their own feelings through their performance of someone else's creation. And is it really all that different if an AI wrote something that resonated with an artist who ultimately performed it? Which for a good chunk of pop-culture regurgitations may be completely valid. But in my opinion, the best art, communicates emotion, which an experience unique to biology, AI might be able to approximate it, and sure there's a human prompting the AI who might genuinely have those feelings, but there's a hollowness to it that I struggle to ignore. But maybe I'm just getting older and will be yelling at clouds before long.
Alphafold?
Literally the world's oldest, continuous civilization. Pretty sure they got one or two things out there in the last 4000 years
If he got super wild and crazy by wearing a tan suit again to work would you?